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What can you do when the world won’t listen to your warning of imminent peril? More and more climate activists are gluing themselves to important artworks to bring attention to their cause...

Pope Francis hasn't been quiet about the urgency of combating climate change. Most recently, during a two-day conference in Vatican City, he took oil company executives to task and called for clean power as climate change...

The Vatican Chapels Pavilion of the Holy See opened to fanfare last week, marking Vatican City’s debut at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. Curated by Professor Francesco Dal Co, the temporary installation consists...

Homeless people in Rome will now have a place to wash their clothes and blankets, thanks to Pope Francis. The pope recently opened a free laundromat, the Lavanderia di Papa Francesco, or Pope Francis Laundry, with the goal...

Biologists, economists, and ecologists have gathered at the Vatican to discuss what actions humanity can take to preserve Earth's biosphere. Attending the Biological Extinction conference, these researchers say one in five...

Environmental and social justice will be the topics at an upcoming meeting at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and one US presidential hopeful has been invited to speak: Senator Bernie Sanders...

A Philadelphia pastor is welcoming Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to the city with a very special surprise. The Reverend Bob Simon of St. Catherine of Siena Church spent the past 10 months building an enormous LEGO replica...

Activist Naomi Klein, who is in an ‘unlikely alliance’ with Vatican on climate change, says she believes a possible divestment policy is under discussion

This morning, the Vatican released the official version of Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change. The final draft skewers climate change skeptics and demands global cooperation of people and governments in order to...

We’ve long known that Pope Francis has a great many thoughts about climate change, and that he has been preparing to release a hefty encyclical to illustrate his stance and urge the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to join...

Income inequality isn't the only important issue Pope Francis is taking on. Add environmental protection to the list as the Argentinian-born leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics has begun drafting an encyclical...

From Thursday's Daily Telegraph Gosh, won’t it be marvellous if the next pope turns out to be black? And I’m not saying this as a Catholic or one of those earnest Lefty types who yearns for an ethnic minority figure to...

Pope Benedict XVI photo from Shutterstock Today Pope Benedict XVI announced plans to resign on Feb 28, citing his advanced age and health. Over his tenure he garnered the moniker “the Green Pope” by making environmentalism...

Pope Benedict XVI has been dubbed “the green pope” for implementing solar power at the Vatican and making it the “greenest state in the world”, supporting environment causes and riding in the first green Popemobile...

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